Meaning:
Fail in a spectacular way
Examples:
- And if we go down in flames, so be it!
- Most of them will go down in flames.
- Aye, we might as well go down in flames.
- I might as well go down in flames.
- As your best friend, I cannot, in good conscience, watch you go down in flames anymore.
- I've put too much into this to sit on the sidelines in the final week of the election and watch it go down in flames.